Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 146

Dat bin er dutty trick wuh Buh Wolf play on eh fren and on Buh Rabbit, but Buh Rabbit, him outdo um.

Who acts: Buh · What happens: play, outdo · To what, where: dutty trick, eh fren, Buh Rabbit

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bin	det
2	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	nsubj
3	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 dutty	advmod
4	dutty	dutty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trick	amod
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	_	9 play	discourse
7	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 play	nsubj
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Buh	flat
9	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trick	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 fren	case
11	eh	eh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fren	amod
12	fren	fren	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 play	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Rabbit	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 Rabbit	case
15	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Rabbit	compound
16	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fren	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 outdo	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 outdo	cc
19	Buh	Buh	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Rabbit	compound
20	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 outdo	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 outdo	punct
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 outdo	nsubj
23	outdo	outdo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trick	parataxis
24	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 outdo	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Buh	dutty trick that bin not said here		eh fren and Buh Rabbit			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
2	outdo	present	Buh	Buh Rabbit				um obj	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot um=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 146

The tree

Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 10, sentence 146